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Dental practice exit guides

The complete reading list for a well-timed, well-priced exit.

• The five-year dental practice exit timeline
  A practice exit that clears maximum value is built five years before the closing table, not five months.
• The 47-step pre-sale checklist every dental practice owner should run before a buyer sees their numbers
  The specific, boring, high-leverage operational housekeeping that separates a 5x multiple from a 7x multiple.
• Dental practice valuation: 2026 multiples, adjustments, and what changed since the DSO rollup peak
  The multiples compressed through 2025. Here is where the market sits now and how to think about your own practice inside the new numbers.
• Tax and legal structures for a dental practice sale
  The difference between a well-structured sale and a poorly-structured one is typically 15 to 30 percent of net-to-seller. This is where that math lives.